Preface by William a Jackson (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine condition. Near Very Good jacket. First Edition. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1949. Appears unread. Very Fine condition in a Near Very Good dust jacket (plain paper, as issued). The jacket has light wear at the extremities. NOT a library discard. Square and tight. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and crisp -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First Edition. 1949. Here are detailed production data on 1,300 books published during the first 26 years of the firm of Ticknor and Fields. Among them are THE SCARLET LETTER; WALDEN; EVANGELINE and others by Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Thoreau, etc. Also recorded here are details on first and early American printings of works by Tennyson, DeQuincy, Kingsley, etc. Entries provide size of edition, data on printing, paper, binding, royalties, profits, dates of printing and publication, pulping of sheets, etc. Fifty pages of introductory matter include a preface by William A. Jackson, a brief history of Ticknor and Fields, as well as a glossary. 1 plate (Thoreau's WALDEN). From the introduction: "The information given includes the size and number of editions, data on printing, stereotyping, paper, presswork, binding, cancels, corrections, illustrations, royalties, prices, profits, and the dates of printing and publication. Here, in short, is the story of the life of books between their creation by the author and their emergence from the bindery." Bound in the original brick red cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Complete with original dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine condition/Near Very Good jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. l, 508pp [558 total pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustrator). …